Doyle's later third period goal wins it for the IceHogs
Published on February 17, 2007 under International Hockey League 2 (IHL 2)
Rockford IceHogs News Release
Rockford, Ill.- A crowd of 5,882 watched the Rockford IceHogs top the Quad City Mallards 3-2 on Saturday night at the Rockford MetroCentre. The crowd was the IceHogs largest of the season. The back-and-forth contest ended when Hogs center Mike Doyle flipped in the game-winner at 18:52 of the final period.
Doyle's goal came just under four-minuets after the Mallards tied the score at 2-2. The Hogs centerman picked up a Matt Gens slapper and knocked it past Quad City goalie Jason Tapp for his 12th goal of the season and team-leading fifth game-winning marker.
The other four goals in the game were tallied on the power play. With Rockford leading 2-1 late in the third period, Quad City found themselves on their ninth power play of the night at 14:47. Just :14 into the advantage winger Justin Chwedoruk deflected an Andrei Lupandin blast past Frederic Cloutier to tie the score.
Ulanski opened the scoring 10:40 into contest when he slipped a snapshot on the power play past Tapp for the 1-0 lead. On a 5-on-3 advantage, the Mallards seized the opportunity with a power-play lamp lighter from Sergei Durdin at 17:47 of the first period. The only goal in the second frame came from Gens when he fired home his sixth goal of the season past Tapp at 4:00.
The contest opened with three fights in the games first six-seconds and Rockford totaled 39 PIM's in the tilt's first :49. The Hogs had 11 power-play opportunities on night and converted two of them while the Mallards netted two power-play goals on nine chances.
Cloutier picked up his 26th win of the season making 18 saves. Tapp was saddled with the loss after turning away 23 shots. The Hogs extended its club-record home winning streak to nine games and its overall unbeaten streak to eight contests (7-0-1). Hogs winger Bryce Cockburn had his club-record tying point streak come to an end at 12 games.
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